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The Heisters (1964) Online
1964 Tom Billups Norris Domingue Larry Ray Tobe Hooper
Original Title :
The Heisters
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy
Year :
1964
Directror :
Tobe Hooper
Cast :
Tom Billups,Norris Domingue,Larry Ray
Writer :
Michael England,Tobe Hooper
Type :
Movie
Time :
10min
Rating :
5.9/10

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The Heisters (1964) Online

Tobe Hooper grew up in motels, hotels and movie theaters. He says he watched at least two films a day. Some of his favorite films were produced by the iconic British horror filmmakers at Hammer Films. THE HEISTERS (restored at 2K from a 35mm print) is Hooper's trippy, Looney Tunes send-up of those films. At the time Hooper was the only student in the University of Texas Austin film department. THE HEISTERS introduced him to Hollywood (he mixed the film at Todd-AO) and whetted his appetite for features. Five years later he would make his first narrative feature, EGGSHELLS.
Credited cast:
Tom Billups Tom Billups - Hune Boone
Norris Domingue Norris Domingue - Angelo Thraxini
Larry Ray Larry Ray - Villamosh Anousslavsky
Larry Ray Larry Ray - Vlad


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The Heisters (1964)

*** (out of 4)

This ten-minute short comes from Tobe Hooper who made this nearly a decade before THE Texas CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. The plot is rather thin but I guess the only thing you need to know is that it has the feel of a Three Stooges film and the look of one of those Roger Corman Poe movies.

The story is pretty lite but there are three men doing a wide range of experiments. That's pretty much all there is as there's nothing really coherent here because it's just a slapstick comedy with some pretty amusing moments including one sequence involving a cockroach that continues to grow. Another highlight deals with a gingerbread man being eaten and then the guy having to pick bones out of his mouth.

I was really impressed with Hooper's comic style here and it makes you wonder what he might have done had the horror film not became the massive success that it did. Visually the film is quite impressive and we're also given some pretty good performances from the cast.
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This film is very much in style with The Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. It's very cartoony and full of slapstick.

I loved the scene where the guy was eating the gingerbread man and he was taking the actual bones of the gingerbread man out of his mouth, that was really clever. The pie fight dual and the giant pie was also very creative. The moment where one of the thieves smacks the other one in the face with the knight's hand and we cut to the man's feet as we see his teeth and his jawbone fall to the floor.

This is all very impressive and creative and it's hard to believe the man who made one of the most controversial horror films ever made directed this.